The road map that was posted last year was meant to give us more safe levels for our forts but nothing on the road map has been implemented into our games, only on the Rise of Balur version, your second question, many times we have asked for extra relic slots only to be told no but now with champions and stoneheart units out as well as hero and hero abilities and equipment that alter the hitpoints of our troops drastically, maybe they might allow a revisit of the relic slots so i will pass this onto our CM

It took a lot for leagues to get a level 20 fortress - leagues with lower level forts need to coordinate with another league and do the upgrades the same way every one else had to.

Now that beacons are back into play in the game it should be a bit easier - when beacons were not a regular part of game play it was far too noticeable and hard to "slip by" holding the required beacons to level up the fortress

It should be fairly easy for leagues to accomplish now that many leagues are now holding beacons and beacon play is a regular thing once again

why force leagues who accomplished this to have to reach higher levels so the leagues who haven't done it can have an easier time of it?